Iranian Christian Imprisoned for Membership in House Church Loses Third Request for Retrial

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Iranian Christian Imprisoned for Membership in House Church Loses Third Request for Retrial

November 16th, 2020

Awake Goy

(Article18) — Imprisoned Christian convert Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh has been informed that his third request for a retrial has been rejected.

Nasser, who is 59 years old, is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Tehran’s Evin Prison because of his membership of a house-church, for which he was convicted in July 2017 of “acting against national security.”

He has been in prison since January 2018.

In his latest petition for a retrial, Nasser argued, with the help of fellow inmate and human rights lawyer Amirsalar Davoudi, that he had done nothing that “constituted a legally defined crime.”

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